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Podcasts:
The Consequences of Teaching Vulnerable Populations to Be Invisible | A Teenage Girl's Perspective on the Culture of Online Slut-Shaming | The Geithner Legacy | Why the Kilogram Standard is Gaining Weight | 'Farewell, Fred Voodoo': A Journalist's Career in Haiti
Syria Death Toll Climbs to a Conservative 60,000 | More Journalists Are Being Killed in Action | An Ad Agency Rethinks Publishing | A Teachable Moment in Steubenville, Ohio | "Reportero" Tells the Story of Journalists Who Risk Their Lives in Mexico
What's in Store for the 113th Congress | House Allows Violence Against Women Act to Expire | 40 Years On: The Battle Over Roe v. Wade | New Movie Releases: 'On the Road,' 'The Impossible,' 'Promised Land' | The Science Behind Human Optimism in a Grim World | 2013: What's in a Number?
Local Government Reform in Afghanistan | Lessons from the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan | America's Infrastructure Crisis | New Immigration Policy Helps Undocumented with Citizen Relatives | Family, Reality, and Outrage | Lessons from Traditional Societies on Raising Children, Caring for the Elderly | Pulitzer-Prize Winning Photographer on Capturing Tragedy
President Obama Expected to Sign Fiscal Cliff Bill | Reexamining America's Mental Health System | After a Spate of Mass Shootings, Oak Creek Victims Reflect on the Year | Embracing Humiliation | Comets to Watch for in 2013 | Who Will Be the NFL's MVP? | Pulitzer-Prize Winning Photographer on Covering Tragedy
Why One NRA Member is Reconsidering His Membership | Slaves Freed 150 Years Ago Today | In the Face of Violence, Do Societies Turn Inward to Evolve? | In a New Year, Comfort from Predictions of What's to Come | From President Johnson to President Obama | Taking the Plunge - Literally - Into the New Year
2012: The Federal Government's Year That Wasn't | Is the House Broken? The Takeaway | Looking Back on President Lyndon Johnson's First Term | Brutal Rape in India Prompts Protests and Reflection | In a New Year, Comfort from Predictions of What's to Come | Year in Review: Sandra Fluke's Unexpected Political Stardom | New Year's Resolutions for Each Other
Remembering General Norman Schwarzkopf | Linking Violence and Biology Through DNA | Ten: The Magic Number of Budget Planning Cycles | New Movie Releases: Django Unchained, Les Miserables | Julia Louis-Dreyfus in 'VEEP' | Vice President Biden Revisits Past in New Policies
Medical Schools Experiment with Shorter Courses | The Argument Against Increasing Taxes | With Five Days to Go, Americans Could be Left with Fiscal Cliff Hanger | Shortcomings Prevent A.T.F from Curbing Gun Violence | The End of Russian Adoptions for Americans? | Getting Back to Business in a Post-Sandy 2013
Understanding How the Mind Makes Meaning | The Reading Brain | Your Brain on Sound | The Real Science of Erasing Your Brain | The Future of the Brain
A Christmas Miracle: Donations from Strangers who Saved a Child | Deconstructing the Christmas Gift | Listeners' Most Meaningful Gifts | Celebrity Stories of Gift Giving | George Takei: Christmas at a Japanese Internment Camp | Remembering Newtown on Christmas
Kerry Nomination Could Bring Another Senate Race for Massachusetts | Kerry Nominated to be the Next Secretary of State | Should Doping Be Legal? | Student Tweets U.S. Drone Strikes, Highlights "Double Tap" Tactic | Before Les Misérables Returns to the Screen, A Look at Its Past
What It Means to Be a Woman with a Gun | Fiscal Cliff: What's Plan C? | A New Version of Hamlet: You Pick the Ending | Revamping Shakespeare | New Evolutionary Theory Suggests Distinct Human Species Coexisted
Syria Descends into Iraq-like Carnage | NATO to Transfer Lead Responsibility to Afghan Forces Next Year | Why Own a Gun? | What Ira Glass Thinks About Christmas | Host John Hockenberry on Why He Owns a Gun | Freedom University: An Education for Georgia's Undocumented | Remixing the Holidays with Run-D.M.C.
Author Rick Moody Calls for More Attention on Mental Health Services | Gun Control Proposals and the Second Amendment | Company that Made Adam Lanza's Assault Rifle Up for Sale | Challenges and Goals for NATO in 2013 | Mapping Noise Pollution to Save Marine Life | Zero Dark Thirty and the Depiction of Torture
